Top Engineering Jobs in Edinburgh

Own Perk’s global go-to-market engineering strategy, architecture, tooling, automation roadmap, and commercial outcomes. Build production workflows in Clay, Salesforce, and code; automate prospecting, selling, account management, and AI-assisted processes; establish engineering standards; and lead a senior distributed team. Partner with revenue leaders to translate pipeline and productivity problems into scalable technical solutions with measurable impact.

Build scalable, full-stack, AI-enabled products for BlackRock’s Aladdin investment compliance and analytics workflows. Lead technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement. Apply generative AI, semantic search, retrieval, intelligent assistants, and agentic workflows responsibly. Partner with product, engineering, compliance, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into deliverable solutions. Influence architecture, champion DevOps and SRE practices, mentor engineers, and promote quality, resilience, security, observability, and maintainability across a global organization.

Serve as a pre-sales Solutions Engineer for Atlassian’s Emerging Markets team, focusing on enterprise customers in Africa. Partner with sales teams and channel partners to discover business and technical needs, map challenges to Atlassian solutions, identify expansion opportunities, and lead customized value-based demonstrations. Build customer and sales partnerships, guide technical buying decisions, document product feedback and competitive intelligence, and continuously develop product and sales-process expertise.

As a Technical Recruiter at Wordsmith, you'll lead technical hiring for AI engineering roles, build talent pipelines, collaborate with engineering leaders, and manage recruitment processes to support rapid growth.

Lead and grow a distributed engineering organization building customer-facing security capabilities: proprietary scanners, AI/ML detection engines, agentic remediation, vulnerability management, and security foundations. Set vision and roadmap, drive architecture and delivery, partner with product management, establish engineering standards, and represent the group in cross-functional and customer forums.

Lead GitLab’s Security Posture Management team within Product Security. Drive governed security capability rollouts across the software estate, establish secure configuration baselines, build software supply chain security, manage risk registers and posture metrics, support audit evidence, and provide customer-zero feedback to Product and Engineering. Hire, coach, and develop the team while representing GitLab’s security practices externally and driving measurable risk reduction in a remote, asynchronous environment.

Lead GitLab’s Build team and roadmap, overseeing systems that convert source code into secure, verified, distributable artifacts. Own build platforms, dependency management, CI templates, supply-chain security, build consistency, observability, and self-service onboarding across delivery targets including Omnibus and CNG. Partner across teams to improve reliability, reduce coordination overhead, and support four-nines service objectives. Manage a distributed, high-performing engineering team and guide architecture, technical strategy, operational excellence, and complex project delivery.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team to deliver high-quality software, balancing delivery and operational excellence while fostering team growth and adopting AI-native workflows.

Build and maintain backend AI capabilities for GitLab Duo Chat: design flow components and agentic flows in Python/LangGraph, integrate LLMs and multi-agent orchestration, implement and maintain APIs in the Rails monolith, improve observability and reliability, and participate in on-call rotations and cross-functional collaboration to deliver safe, scalable AI chat features.

Lead the HARMONI astronomical instrument project, coordinating UK ATC teams and international collaborators. Responsibilities include managing technical teams, schedules, budgets, risks, quality, safety, design baselines, change control, work packages, and subcontracts. The role requires delivery of a complex technology project on time and within budget, alongside stakeholder engagement, people leadership, communication, negotiation, and technical problem-solving.

Lead and grow a Europe-based full-stack engineering team building the Affirm App and direct-to-consumer products across international markets. Own the full software lifecycle, set technical roadmaps, hire and develop engineers, ensure reliability and scalability for millions of users, and drive cross-functional alignment with product, design, data, and business partners.

Lead a team that integrates third-party and modular features into GitLab's Dedicated SaaS platform. Ensure high availability (99.99%+), drive operational excellence, automate toil, own incident management, prioritize via data, recruit and develop engineers, and use AI to boost productivity and guide technical strategy.

Two-year manufacturing engineering development program featuring two 12-month rotations across supply chain assignments. Engineers support shop-floor problem solving, interpret blueprints and GD&T, improve manufacturing processes, develop work instructions, analyze production data, apply Lean and Six Sigma, and manage manufacturing change projects. The program combines hands-on training, classroom education, mentorship, and leadership development.

A two-year rotational program developing manufacturing engineering expertise through two 12-month assignments. Responsibilities include supporting shop-floor problem solving, interpreting blueprints and GD&T, improving manufacturing processes, developing work instructions, analyzing production data, applying Lean and Six Sigma, and managing manufacturing change projects. Candidates will gain technical and leadership skills through hands-on training, classroom education, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration.

Leads and develops Ciena’s Edinburgh software engineering team, overseeing hiring, coaching, performance management, delivery planning, risk mitigation, technical reviews, and cross-functional alignment. The role drives predictable software delivery, continuous improvement, product quality, scalability, availability, and maintainability across a global networking organization. Candidates need extensive software development experience in networking or technically complex domains, strong people leadership, and the ability to deliver complex software through engineering teams.

Design and deliver end-to-end features for DAP onboarding and repository/background flows. Build autonomous and scheduled agents that act on customer codebases, improve onboarding experience, collaborate on shared interfaces, review code and designs, and contribute to an async-first, distributed team's technical quality and ownership culture.

Lead a 0-to-1 pilot team to find and fix high-leverage SDLC friction, instrument system-level metrics (MRPM, pipeline success rate, latency), recruit and mentor four engineers, design and implement durable fixes, and drive adoption across engineering teams while reporting metric-driven outcomes to leadership.

Lead the full‑stack Switchboard team owning the Dedicated tenant management control panel. Hire and develop engineers, partner with Product and Design, set technical direction, ensure cross‑functional delivery, drive quality/security/performance improvements, and operate large‑scale distributed services with strong SLO and operational excellence.

Design, build, and operate the high-availability event and trigger system that links GitLab and third-party events to AI-powered Duo Flows. Work in GitLab's Rails monolith, scale for high throughput, influence architecture, add trigger types, collaborate cross-functionally, and participate in Tier 2/3 on-call rotations to troubleshoot production issues.

Manage global operational risk programs including risk engineering, property loss prevention, and business resilience. Partner with stakeholders and vendors to drive governance, compliance, audits, remediation, data analysis, and program deployment to reduce loss and ensure business continuity across manufacturing and supply chain operations.

Lead and scale the engineering organization for a regulated digital-asset custody platform. Own hiring, org design, engineering operations (on-call, incidents, release hygiene), delivery against roadmaps, audit and regulator readiness (SOC 2, SAMA, ISO 27001), and cross-functional alignment. Amplify an existing small, specialized team to meet regulatory and institutional requirements while preserving culture and retention.

Build and operate full-stack features for elastic.co using React, TypeScript, and backend services. Own deployment pipelines, performance monitoring, observability, security vulnerability remediation, production troubleshooting, code reviews, and on-call support in a globally distributed team.

Develop and scale software supporting Firefox’s build, test, and release pipelines. Improve developer experience through release automation, collaborate with distributed engineering teams, participate in code reviews, maintain existing tools and codebases, and respond to critical service outages during normal working hours.

Manage a technical team focused on Git and Git-related infrastructure, balancing upstream open-source work with GitLab priorities. Drive long-horizon scalability, performance, and architectural projects while fostering technical rigor, ownership, mentoring, and strong asynchronous communication across distributed teams.

Leads a global software and quality engineering organization responsible for enterprise data integration products across mainframe, distributed, hybrid, and cloud environments. Oversees engineering execution, software quality, modernization, customer escalations, operational readiness, innovation, and AI-enabled practices. Partners with product, architecture, and support teams while developing talent, managing performance, fostering accountability, and ensuring reliable delivery of business-critical software.